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1. CONTEXT AND OVERVIEW
The situation in the North-West and South-West (NWSW) regions remains worrying and tense; incidents of continuous fighting between State security forces and non-State armed groups, threats to life, targeted attacks, destruction of property, arbitrary arrest, rape, physical assaults, kidnappings for ransom, money extortion, and continued use of improvised explosive devices (IEDs) not leaving out the ghost towns and lockdowns imposed on the population. The local population of these regions continues to suffer the consequences of violent incidents, either being targeted directly or being caught in IEDs explosions, crossfire, or military raids.
The following report outlines key findings from DRC’s protection monitoring activities from January to December 2022. The analysis presents the key protection findings in the assessed areas and can be used for an increased understanding of the wide-ranging protection impacts the NWSW crisis has on the affected population.
DRC is present in the Southwest region since November 2018 conducting Protection and Economic Recovery (ECREC) projects for the crisis-affected populations. Within the protection sector, DRC has been operating under 4 main components: child protection, community-based protection, psychosocial support, case management, protection assistance and Protection Information Management (PIM). Protection monitoring is the systematic and regular collection, verification, and analysis of information over an extended period of time to identify violations of rights and/or protection risks of populations of concern with the aim of implementing effective reactive measures. This report presents the key findings of DRCs protection monitoring activities carried out during the months of January to December 2022. The document gives an overview of the protection situation and impact of the ongoing crisis in the NWSW on the local population. It was developed based on findings from 21 communities in the Fako and Meme divisions on Southwest Cameroon, using the P21 tool and DRC’s daily incident tracker.
DRC’s protection monitoring activities support evidence-based protection and ECREC responses aiming at mitigating protection concerns related to human rights’ violations and displacement.